Beauty, is a power in itself.

In the world of Renaissance painting,

Except for Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo.

And the name deserves to be remembered, That's Sandro Botticelli we're talking about.

This painting—spring, is one of Preti's favorites.

Represents the footsteps of spring, let the world return to a symbol of beauty.

Preti visited the Uffizi Museum in 2015, standing in front of her, we were all shocked.

Each mythological character is life-size.

Mythological characters from left to right are Mercury, the Three Graces, Venus, Flora, Chloris, and Zephyrus.

The situation is so beautiful, the scenes in the painting are so attractive.

Even though there are grayish shades of blue in the painting,

Let the interpretation of the picture of the situation more than a bit of mystery.

The richness of the picture and the smoothness of the lines of each character,

And the ability to look for more than a hundred varieties of flowers and plants in a painting, let us have stood before the painting for so long.

Eager to have a time machine that goes back 500 years,

Infiltration analysis of the artist's creative inspiration and process.

Feeling glad the painting has survived intact to this day,

Let us who love art see and feel the existence of such beauty.

Have you ever occurred that such a beautiful painting, could have been destroyed 500 years ago by political change?

It's not surprising that the Renaissance was born in the Medici family's mansion.

This family of huge power

There is also a love of art and culture of the rulers, he is the luxurious - Lorenzo.

At that time, he sponsored many artists, include Da Vinci and Botticelli.

Lorenzo loves Botticelli, an artist who is five years her senior.

This painting, also painted by the artist for his patron,

The goddess Venus in the middle is modeled on Lorenzo's wife.

Under Lorenzo, Florence blossomed, Botticelli also leads a carefree life.

Until Lorenzo's death, an extremely ascetic Savonarola tried to rule Florence.

He even incited the expulsion of the Medici family, advocating a return to medieval theocracy, prohibited song, dance and artistic creation.

So, a lot of humanistic books at the time,

At the time, many humanist books and paintings were thrown into the fire, including Botticelli's paintings that were pushed to the forefront.

Couldn't understand that he, at the time,

Is actually the ability to leave Florence and move to other cities?

Without having to succumb to that kind of domination Threw the painting into the blazing fire himself.

Thankfully, many of the paintings survived.

But later Botticelli's painting style, has been completely unable to find the kind of young spirit.

People at the time even forgot about the later man,

Until he quietly left the world finally.

If Lorenzo had lived longer,

Will we see more of Botticelli's paintings today?

During the Renaissance, the beauty created by Botticelli,

And his name is worth remembering.

That beauty is a blooming of life.

Preti's original article

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